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Just a reminder that AIX 5.3 goes out of support on 30 April 2012. That means the end of standard support. If you must keep your AIX 5.3 systems and can't upgrade it (you probably can, more easily than you realise), you could create a versioned WPAR running AIX 5.3 on an Power7 system within and AIX 7.1 logical partition. You can build it all with a mksysb restore. For more details, see this document .

Among the plethora of good AIX resources coming to our browsers in the last week, a few deserve a particular mention. First, there was the Power IT Pro Virtual Conference. I had a chance to watch Rob McNelly's presentation. Rob, who writes the unmissable weekly AIXchange blog , covered a lot of AIX topics, letting the viewer look over his shoulder as he strolled through the use of: virtual optical disks installing AIX7 from virtual optical creating WPARs, versioned WPARs for AIX 5.2 WPARs on AIX 7 (boy, this is easy) Live Partition Mobility in... [More]

UPDATED: Chris Gibson has pointed out a couple of other AIX 7.1 features which have been backported to AIX 6.1 from TL 6. topas screens now allow a freeze / unfreeze by hitting the spacebar In topas you can also page down and page up through the data For more details, see the comments in my post: topas features: sort by column, toggle to nmon or check the AIX 7.1 Differences Guide If you’re looking forward to some of the new features of AIX 7, but find migrating to the new release a little daunting, then it's time for you to put into practice... [More]

"AIX7 OB boarding now" Are you someone who is always behind the times? Do you buy the last ticket on the last train into the evacuated
city? Well, take off your N minus ten leadweight and join the discerning passengers of AIX Down Under on our first flight on AIX 7 Open Beta. AIX 7 Open Beta is available from a free download in ISO format, which means you could burn it onto a DVD or (better still) use the VIO server virtual media library . Of course you'll need to boot off the DVD / virtual optical device. It's a mksysb restore.... [More]

High Level high[-er] availabilty options IBM HACMP (High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing) has been available since 1991. It was renamed to IBM PowerHA and, more recently PowerHA System Mirror for AIX. While studying up on this recently, I came across some excellent comparisons between PowerHA , Live Partition Mobility and migration of Worload Partitions (WPARs) . This is a high-level comparison of how the three might help with managing outages and make for high er availability, even if they aren't all PowerHA. LPM and HA First, Live... [More]